I need to know if UE4 have something like Unity Debug.Break(), which allows us to pause the editor execution from some point in code, and then select any actor on the scene, and even “frame skip” if i want to.
I can do something similar by calling “set game paused” from blueprint and then click on “unposses” editor button, but in this case i cannot resume the game again nor use the “frame skip” editor option (not available).
Looking for the same behavior as the “pause” button (after play) on the editor (different behavior from set game paused), but calling it from blueprint or C++ (without pressing the button from the editor).
Yes, Hit Pause/break key. This will pause the game in editor. Click “Eject” to go to free cam. From there you can access any actor in the world outliner and even frame skip.
I need this badly… the ability to “pause simulation” from blueprint/c++ (NOT using the viewport button) is magic for the developer… then i could pause the execution from code, in the exact moment i want to, unpossess if i need to (using the viewport button) and then inspect the scene on the viewport with the simulation paused, allowing to use even the “frame skip” (using the viewport button).
Someone must know, it appears to be basic thing for debugging gameplay…
“Set game paused” behavior is not the same as click on “pause simulation” editor button… for instance, with “set game paused” the “frame skip” does not work. And to resume the game again there is the need to code some function to “set game paused” to false again.
It works for some scenarios, but is not compatible with the behavior we want (i believe UE4 does not have it, maybe we can code something ). Still, any tips is gold!
I could not customize It… Not really good at c++.
can not believe UE4 does not have It…
How UE4 devs debug gameplay without the ability to pause simulation from code and navigate through the scene in editor?.. Or even navigate the scene when a breakpoint is reached?
Can only achieve this by clicking on pause simulation Button, but doing It manually is not good for debugging purpose.
Love unreal, but It is a bit frustrating!
From C++, you can use the same method called on the button click, but from code, exactly as we wanted.
In your project build.cs file you just add a dependency to “UnrealEd” module.
Then, from your class code you can call FPlayWorldCommandCallbacks::PausePlaySession_Clicked() (adding #include “Kismet2/DebuggerCommands.h”).
I believe it is simple to make a blueprint node from it.
This is exactly the behavior from Unity´s Debug.Break().
So I think a simple solution, that addresses this problem (lack of a quick way to pause the editor, like you can in Unity), is to make a keyboard binding (keyboard shortcut) in Editor Preferences.
I made mine the Q key. Seems to accomplish what’s desired here.
I didn’t expect this to work, but I seem to have found a way to achieve this.
By using a widget interaction component you are able to call Press Key using it and specify which keyboard key you want to press. If you pass in the Pause key (or whatever other key is your editor’s shortcut for pausing the editor) it will pause the editor just fine. I could automatically pause the editor/game when my blueprint execution reached a certain point using this method.
). Still, any tips is gold!